Acts of Care : Recovering Women in Late Medieval Health /

"Brings together the histories of European medicine, gender, and Christianity to re-embed women's participation in medieval healthcare. Using devotional manuscripts, hagiographical texts, liturgy, poetry, and medical treatises, it reveals the healthcare knowledge and caregiving practices of Cisterci...

Повний опис

Збережено в:
Бібліографічні деталі
Автор: Ritchey, Sara Margaret (Автор)
Формат: Електронний ресурс eКнига
Мова:Англійська
Опубліковано: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Серія:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Предмети:
Онлайн доступ:Full text available:
Теги: Додати тег
Немає тегів, Будьте першим, хто поставить тег для цього запису!
Зміст:
  • Translating care: the circulation of healing stories
  • Bedside comforts: the social organization of care
  • Empirical bodies: competing theories of therapeutic authority
  • Rhythmic medicine: the psalter as a therapeutic technology in Beguine communities
  • Salutary words: saints' lives as efficacious texts in Cistercian women's abbeys.